Extra Corporeal Membrane Oxygenation |??ECMO - life-saving technique that uses a membrane oxygenator that acts as an artificial heart and lung to infuse the blood with oxygen, remove carbon dioxide and recirculate the blood back into the patient's bloodstream.

pulmonary fibrosis | scarring of the lungs - interstitial lung disease in which scars that thicken the lung tissues are formed, making it difficult for crucial organs like brain and heart to get oxygenated blood, causing shortness of breath, coughing, and diminished exercise tolerance.

zombie deer disease - chronic wasting disease caused by prions and characterized by weight loss, no fear of humans, thirst and increased salivation and ultimately, staring vacantly as it starves to death. It affects deer, elk, moose and other members of the same animal family that carry prions and it can be transmitted to humans.